“ O death, where is thy sting? O grave,c where is thy victory? ”
“O death.” This triumphant exclamation is the commencement of the fourth division of the chapter, the practical consequences of the doctrine. It is such an exclamation as every man with right feeli...
A new question is now introduced, What will happen to those who are alive when Christ returns? ( cf . 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17 ). The principle that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God...
sting . Greek. kentron. See Acts 26:14 . grave . Greek. hades. App-131. The texts read "death" (Greek. thanatos) .
As to the second clause, in which he triumphs over death and the grave, it is not certain whether he speaks of himself, or whether he meant there also to quote the words of the Prophet. For whe...
DISCOURSE: 1995 DEATH A CONQUERED ENEMY 1 Corinthians 15:51-58 . Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at th...
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? - Που σου, Θανατε, το κεντρον· που σου, ᾁδη, το νικος· These words are ge...
So when this corruptible, &c.— Or, And when, &c. "When this glorious and long expected event shall be accomplished,—when this corruptible part of our frame shall have put on incorruption,...
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? From Hosea 13:14 substantially, but freely quoted by the warrant of the Spirit. The Hebrew may be translated, 'O death, where are...
(f) The Fact and the Doctrine of the Resurrection of the Dead Some Corinthians disbelieved in the resurrection of the dead—not, apparently, in Christ's Resurrection, though St. Paul felt this wo...
O death, where is thy sting? — In the prophet Hosea, where these words originally occur, the passage reads thus — “Where is thy victory, O death? Where is thy sting, O hell?” — the word “hell” refe...
Victory over Sin and Death 1 Corinthians 15:42-58 Life on the other side will be as real and as earnest as here. We shall not dissolve into thin mist or flit as bodiless ghosts. We shall each b...
The last fact of the "spiritualities" is the resurrection, and the apostle first gives the proof of the resurrection of Christ. His final proof was his own experience. It is evident that there were...
. But the miraculous and instantaneous change from mortality to immortality, which he here asserts, and which is to be wrought without passing through death, this is a mystery nowhere else spoken of....
O death, where is thy sting ?.... These words, with the following clause, are taken out of Hosea 13:14 and that they belong to the times of the Messiah, the ancient Jews acknowledge; and the Chald...
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Ver. 55. Death, where is thy sting? ] This is the sharpest and the shrillest note, the boldest and the bravest challenge, that ever...
O death, where is thy sting? Which once was full of hellish poison. O grave Αδης, O hades , the receptacle of separate souls; where is thy victory? Thou art now robbed of thy spoils; all thy c...
This chapter itself forms a third division of the book, and deals with another most serious matter in Corinth. Some among them denied the resurrection of the dead. But the resurrection of Christ is t...
The Resurrection of Saints. A. D. 57. 51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all slee...
The apostle, in the contemplation of this blessed day, triumpheth over death, in a metaphorical phrase: Where is thy sting? What hurt canst thou now do unto believers, more than a wasp, or hornet,...
'O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?' Paul now comes back to the present and is so carried away with the glory of the idea that he chides death itself as he considers the r...
CRITICAL NOTES 1 Corinthians 15:35 .— (1) Emphasis on “ the dead ,—the DEAD!—the DEAD!” (2) “ With what (kind of) body? ” See Homiletic Analysis. 1 Corinthians 15:36 .—Emphasis on “ thou ”...
1 Corinthians 15:55 , 1 Corinthians 15:56 . The Triumph over Death. I. The most remarkable feature of the triumph over death is the acknowledgment of death's victory and of the manner of it. T...
1 Corinthians 15:1-2 . Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memo...
1 Corinthians 15:1 . I declare unto you the gospel by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you. We have here an epitome of the whole gospel, comprising essentially th...
For this corruptible must put on incorruption. The great change The apostle presents this-- I. As a contrast betwixt what man now is and what he will be. 1. Twice over the apostle affirms...
EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 15:1-46 The doctrine of the resurrection. This chapter, and the thirteenth, on Christian love, stand out, even among the writings of St. Paul, as pre-eminently be...
The transformation of the last day and the victory over death:
Acts 2:27 ; Acts 9:5 ; Ecclesiastes 2:15 ; Ecclesiastes 2:16 ; Ecclesiastes 3:19 ; Ecclesiastes 8:8 ; Ecclesiastes 9:5 ; Ecclesiastes 9:6 ; Hosea 13:14 ; Job 18:13 ; Job 18:14 ; Luke 16:2...
How Are the Dead Raised Up? 1 Corinthians 15:29-58 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There are two rather startling questions asked and answered in the opening verses; that is, from 1 Corinthians 15:29-34...
O death, where is thy sting? — Which once was full of hellish poison. O hades, the receptacle of separate souls, where is thy victory — Thou art now robbed of all thy spoils; all thy captives are s...